Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[crazyeggs]

Here are some pics of chicks that hatched last night

 

[ambrosia]

awww.... for cute

 

[Sphinx]

Awww, so cute!

I am coming up flat footed for April Fool's Day. I normally come up with some great pranks. Last year, I sent my kids out to collect eggs on AFD (this should've been a flag, as I always collect eggs myself), and this is what they found:

(keep in mind we only had 4 or 5 laying hens at the time)


Then, the year before, I told the kids we were having cake for dinner.

It was a meatloaf cake. I used instant mashed potatoes for the frosting.

Then we had "meatloaf" for dessert- it was brownies made in a loaf pan.

 

[babigyrl22]

Awww, so cute!

I am coming up flat footed for April Fool's Day. I normally come up with some great pranks. Last year, I sent my kids out to collect eggs on AFD (this should've been a flag, as I always collect eggs myself), and this is what they found:

(keep in mind we only had 4 or 5 laying hens at the time)

this.is.awesome. I could so imagine the kids like

HAHAHAHAHahhahahahahaha....

 

[EnnisLakeFarm]

NOT a good week. For friends that pray... pray for me and my family.

I'll be locking down Wednesday at lunch... hoping none of the Icelandics pip early.

You and yours are in my prayers today!

I'm working on some!!! Trying to think of something for September and August....

OOH! August1st is friendship day and September 9th is National Teddy Bear day! Off to see what I can come up with.

Just had my five duck eggs HATCH! First time incubating ducks and they ALL hatched! Yay! Chocolate Indian Runner ducklings and all five are doing good.

For those that like to bake bread, here is another yummy recipe my mother started making 30 years ago.

CHeese Bread

1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup warm water
1 pkg dry yeast
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon grated onion
1 teaspoon dill weed
1 cup (1/4 pound) grated cheddar cheese
4 cups all purpose white flour

Heat milk to scald. Add sugar and salt to dissolve. Let cool to lukewarm. Sprinkle yeast over 105-115 degree water to dissolve. Stir together milk mixture, oinion, dill weed, 2 cups flour and cheese in a mixer bowl. Beat on low for about 2 minutes until smooth. Gradually add remaining flour and mixing the last by hand until dough leaves the sides of the bowl. TUrn out and knead until smooth, about 5 minutes. Grease a bowl, place dough in and turn to grease all sides.Cover. let rise until double about 1 hour.

Grease 9x5x3 loaf pan. Turn dough out and shape into smooth ball.. Roll into 14 x 8 rectangle and roll up. Seal edges by pinching. Place in loaf pan. Cover and let rise 1 1/2 hours until doubled.

Bake 375 degrees for 25 minutes, then cover with foild and bake another 15-20 minutes longer. Remove from oven and brush top with butter. Remove from loaf pan to cool completely before cutting.

Sounds good. Right now we are on a Friendship bread kick (I make a sweet white/whole wheat sandwich bread out of the starter)

Ingredients

1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups warm water
6 cups bread flour​

Directions

1. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients thoroughly.
2. Oil bottom and sides of a large bowl.
3. Put dough into bowl and cover lightly.
4. Let dough stand overnight at room temperature.
5. In the morning, punch dough down four or five times.
6. Divide dough into three equal balls.
7. Kneed each ball eight to ten times.
8. Grease and dust three loaf pans with flour.
9. Put dough into pans.
10. Brush tops with oil and cover with oiled foil.
11. Let stand 4-5 hours or all day.
12. Preheat oven to 350° F (177° C).
13. Bake 30-40 minutes and cover with foil after lightly browned.

 

[Melissa Rose]

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I try not to count but I am licensed to sell 100 and then there is my personal flock

 

[Melissa Rose]

Awww, so cute!

I am coming up flat footed for April Fool's Day. I normally come up with some great pranks. Last year, I sent my kids out to collect eggs on AFD (this should've been a flag, as I always collect eggs myself), and this is what they found:

(keep in mind we only had 4 or 5 laying hens at the time)


Then, the year before, I told the kids we were having cake for dinner.

It was a meatloaf cake. I used instant mashed potatoes for the frosting.

Then we had "meatloaf" for dessert- it was brownies made in a loaf pan.

I am soooooo snagging these for next year

 

[gryeyes]

I don't know why we are marking our spot but this is my mark.
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"Marking our spots" is the not-very-technical way for some of us to half-way keep track of how "where we entered" the thread at a particular time, while we catch up reading earlier posts. The next time we enter the thread, we can just use the "your last post" feature and it takes us right there, to the last place we were current. We mark our spots again.

Hope that explains it.

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I hope all is well with you, Mahonri.

Ditto. Muchos dittos, I am sure.

I always feel worse for the roo when they have those girl troubles than I do for the girls.

Seriously, buy a girl flowers and ask her for a date before trying for the goods, already! Sheesh!!

Yeah, me too - if the hen or pullet gets away! If she doesn't and is squawking, I stride right over and pluck the boy off her. No wing dance, no acquiescent squat, no nooky. Treat the ladies nice, boys!

Mahonri...I hope you have a great Sunday. Still praying for you and yours. Hope you get a chance to watch GC. Or at lest listen to it. Count those blessings, regardless of what's up. They are right there!! I know you know that.

Take care..waiting to hear from you.

Ditto again, for the parts I understood.

Okay. I candled before I got up. No. Scratch that. I candled before sunrise. Obviously I got up too early.

36 eggs set.
1 quit since last candling around day 9
1 definitely looks like mush, but still has some veins

Some of the others look good, but after I saw the egg that looked like mush inside, I started imagining others looked like mush, too. So who really knows what's going on in there. I started feeling like Dr. Frankenstein. Candling sort of put a damper on the day and I've certainly lost my appetite. I never had this problem with my old candling flashlights because I couldn't see so well into the eggs. I'm wondering if some things should just remain a mystery until they hatch and at that point I can call them miracles.

On a happier note ... wait for it ... I'm trying to end on a happy note but I can't think of one... oh, here ... I went to the feed store and managed to not buy any little chickies. That surprised me and I'm hoping that I may be finally graduating from chicken math to chicken calculus, skipping chicken algebra altogether. Definition of chicken calculus: a branch of chicken mathematics focused on limits, etc.

I have morning like this: All of them! Well, minus the candling info. I do not like setting myself up for disappointment more than once - it's so much better being thrilled with ANY miracle (although one does hope for more than just one chick to hatch; nonetheless, any hatched chick is a miracle to me!

The highest mathematics course I ever completed in school was geometry. I nearly flunked algebra. I just don't understand "variables." Geometry, however, was waaaay coool. I can SEE the shapes and fold and unfold tesseracts in my mind's eye. I know calculating them uses variables, but being able to conceive the shapes and where things fit allowed me to pass the course with a high B. My Algebra teacher gave me a C- out of charity for algebra and then the following year was rather surprised at how well I did in geometry. (Uhhh... small school system, and actually, he and his family lived next door to us.)

I must mention this was more than 40 years ago.

Awww, so cute!

I am coming up flat footed for April Fool's Day. I normally come up with some great pranks. Last year, I sent my kids out to collect eggs on AFD (this should've been a flag, as I always collect eggs myself), and this is what they found:

(keep in mind we only had 4 or 5 laying hens at the time)

Oh, wow, I wish I didn't live alone JUST TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT! Or, better yet, have someone do that to me! My inner child would be so delighted!! And your cake dinner / meatloaf dessert is so freakin' clever and fun!

 

[ronott1]

Happy Sunday All

What am I going to do with these chicks

I have cleaned out the Genesis I use for hatching. This will be the fourth time I have used it in as may weeks. I still have one more and then will take a break.

This is my most recent hatch- 7 FBC Marans:



This is one taking a ride on my Youngest Daughters Shoulder. Amanda helped me check the air cells today for my EO Basque Eggs and the Cream Legbar eggs. She agreed that they are where they are supposed to be according to the Brinsea Chart:

 

[sbarab]

Can someone remind me when our Easter Hatch chicks should be going on lockdown? It's been a couple of years since I used my bator.